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They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!

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• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Leadership

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Golf
  • Will

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • Done
  • Why

• They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • Thoughts

• I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Energy

• I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Hand
  • Candy

• I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Feel

• What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • World
  • Great
  • Ocean

• I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Often

• When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Fear

• They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Up

• The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Unknown

• America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I’d rather be America’s enemy.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Up
  • Friends
  • America

• Would it not be as well to liberate and make soldiers at once of the blacks themselves, as to make them instruments for enlisting white soldiers? It would certainly be more consonant to the principles of liberty which ought never to be lost sight of in a contest for liberty...

  

  James Madison
  • Lost

• More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart

• If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • People
  • Why
  • Caring

• Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Religious

• I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • Why
  • Success

• They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!

  

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